Dr. Rachel N. Baum

Dr. Rachel N. Baum is Deputy Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Baum’s current research focuses on how new technologies such as holography and virtual reality are impacting our memory of the...

Dr. Rebecca Carter-Chand

  Dr. Carter-Chand is the director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the intersections between religion and the Holocaust. In this role,...

Dr. Robert Skloot

Robert (Bob) Skloot retired in 2008 after 40 years of teaching, directing and administrating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His career has included serving as Fulbright Professor in Israel (1980-81), Austria (F 1988), Chile (F 1995) and The Netherlands (S...

Dr. Roni Mikel Arieli

Roni Mikel Arieli wrote her PhD dissertation at the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Louise Bethlehem and Dr. Amos Goldberg. Her dissertation entitled “Remembering the Holocaust in a...

Dr. Samson Munn

Samson Munn’s parents were European Jews.  His mother, from Aurich, Germany, survived Auschwitz, Gräben and Bergen-Belsen.  His father, from Lodz, Poland, survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Görlitz. Citizenships: Israel, Poland, Germany and the U.S.A. In...

Dr. Sarah Valente

Dr. Valente is the co-director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College in New York City. She teaches various courses in Jewish Studies and English at Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. In Spring 2022, she served as the Marvin &...